In addition to retailers claiming an inordinate number of lottery wins, CBC News has learned that Ontario's lottery corporation has also been battling problems related to instant scratch tickets.Internal data from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. indicate that at one point retailers and clerks claimed wins on scratch tickets 10 per cent of the time, The Fifth Estate has learned as part of an ongoing probe.
Last month it was revealed that in the past seven years Ontario clerks and retailers have claimed lottery victories nearly 200 times. University of Toronto statistician Jeffery Rosenthal said statistically the number should have been closer to 57, and was a statistical anomaly nearly impossible to achieve.